Giovanni Esposito, Jean Marc Burgunder, John Dunlop, Philip Gorwood, Amir Inamdar, Stefan M Pfister, Roland Pochet, Martin J van den Bent, Nancy Van Hoylandt, Michael Weller, Manfred Westphal, Wolfgang Wick, David Nutt
Brain disorders pose major challenges to medicine and treatment innovation. This is because their spectrum spans inflammatory, degenerative, traumatic/ischaemic, and neoplastic disease processes with a complex and often ill- understood aetiology. An improved genetic and genomic understanding of specific disease pathways offers new approaches to these challenges, but at present it is in its infancy. Here, we review different aspects of the challenges facing neuromedicine, give examples of where there are advances, and highlight challenges to be overcome...
2016: Public Health Genomics